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High life

The glory of Paris has long past

2 September 2023

9:00 AM

2 September 2023

9:00 AM

Gstaad

A reader’s inquiry as to why I think Paris belongs to yesterday (12 August) has me remembering times past. When did the party end? According to many night owls it was when the ‘Queen of the Night’, Regine, shut down her club New Jimmy’z and moved to London in the 1970s, where she flopped.

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